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. >> may know more about technology than a tomcat's knows about baking gingerbread. >> welcome to our viewers. israel killed the military commander of hamas and launched a series of attacks. hamas vowed in this would open the gates to hell. military action will continue. >> for the people of gaza, it looked like a war, and as in most wars, civilians are caught up in the violence. the first target today was the biggest hamas's most senior military leader was typify and -- hit by a military strike. he died instantly. hamas says this is a major provocation. good >> they will pay a price for this, because he was one of our most exceptional leaders. >> she sat at the top of the military wing. tonight israel published these images. the army released video footage of him being tracked and the moment when his car was hit. israel said the strike followed a wave of rocket attacks from gaza. >> i can just elaborate the target was to protect israeli civilians. they have been under constant rocket attacks for the last year. >> gaza is expected to face more casualties, among them children and at le
. >> may know more about technology than a tomcat's knows about baking gingerbread. >> welcome to our viewers. israel killed the military commander of hamas and launched a series of attacks. hamas vowed in this would open the gates to hell. military action will continue. >> for the people of gaza, it looked like a war, and as in most wars, civilians are caught up in the violence. the first target today was the biggest hamas's most senior military leader was typify and -- hit...
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he loved the science technology toys that the cia director uniquely has. i think he did take the job because it was the next great challenge when he couldn't be chairman of the joint chiefs. when i think about petraeus, the person, the interesting question for me is after this terrible fall, this big scandal, you know, he'll have a period of rehabilitation. but what's the next challenge that this smart ambitious guy will try to take on. some place like princeton still want him, will another university want him. on the morning that this broke, i actually spent an e-mail saying he was likely to leave following all what norah was saying. i don't know the answer. what he would have done if he had another couple weeks. they didn't say anything. when finally the story broke said sorry i couldn't get back to you earlier but you understand. >> rose: i also have been told, we're all talking about speculation what people said if they wanted it more than someone else but he did not have at the cia the kind of support system around him that gave him a certain confiden
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technologically, the increasing range in numbers of rockets and missiles and everything else, again, the status quo is not sustainable. >> charlie: battle of ideas. >> that's all we were trying to lay out. >> charlie: you didn't link it to the loss of lives of americans -- >> i did not at all. you read the statement and that is not in there, what it said is that it makes it more difficult, again, to achieve our objectives and it makes it again more difficult for the moderate regimes in that region to do that, so there was some very clear misrepresentation of that and, of course, it came at an emotional moment when you had the vice president biden visit. >> charlie: and the netanyahu visit. >> yeah. >> charlie: and in fact, there was some sense that it represented -- this is characterized too -- it represented a change of view by this administration and that this president realized that settlement of that was so important, the conflict for all the reasons that you outlined along with other reasons that he was going to push harder than anybody else had. >> well, i think he started that
technologically, the increasing range in numbers of rockets and missiles and everything else, again, the status quo is not sustainable. >> charlie: battle of ideas. >> that's all we were trying to lay out. >> charlie: you didn't link it to the loss of lives of americans -- >> i did not at all. you read the statement and that is not in there, what it said is that it makes it more difficult, again, to achieve our objectives and it makes it again more difficult for the...
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one of the things that's kind of interesting is that we've done this new technology which we also did in haiti where you can take your cell phone, text swat for swat, swat, and then send it to 50555. that will, and then you punch yes and that means $10. but it's interesting. when we did this for haiti, we raised millions of dollars. when we did it for the swat refugees last year we raised a couple million. so far we've raised very little until tonight. and i hope this program helps change it. why? because people don't relate to a flood the way they do to an earthquake or tsunami which hits then it's over, the press comes in and does the incredible stories of rescuesing people who have survived. here the press can't get in, charlie. we don't knows what's happening on the ground. all we have is aerial photos so far. >> rose: everybody should be doing everything they can. but it seems to me that with the united states having the kind of presence and commit testimony has to afghanistan and pakistan, you know, it is an opportunity to both do well and do good. >> we absolutely agree with yo
one of the things that's kind of interesting is that we've done this new technology which we also did in haiti where you can take your cell phone, text swat for swat, swat, and then send it to 50555. that will, and then you punch yes and that means $10. but it's interesting. when we did this for haiti, we raised millions of dollars. when we did it for the swat refugees last year we raised a couple million. so far we've raised very little until tonight. and i hope this program helps change it....
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: israel and the militant group hamas slid closer to all-out war today. the israelis blasted gaza with scores of air strikes, and the palestinians said 16 people were killed there. hamas and its allies fired more than 200 rockets and even struck as far away as tel aviv. three israelis were killed. we begin with this report by john ray of "independent television news." ( gunfire ) >> reporter: in gaza, gunfire and a thirst for revenge. thousands throng the streets for the funeral of a hamas leader killed by israel. the first death of this conflict but how many more will follow? the mood here is of great anger and defiance. militarily, hamas is no match for the israeli air force. but they say this ia death that must and will be avenged. so, no cease
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he loved the science technology toys that the cia director uniquely has. i think he did take the job because it was the next great challenge when he couldn't be chairman of the joint chiefs. when i think about petraeus, the person, the interesting question for me is after this terrible fall, this big scandal, you know, he'll have a period of rehabilitation. but what's the next challenge that this smart ambitious guy will try to take on. some place like princeton still want him, will another university want him. on the morning that this broke, i actually spent an e-mail saying he was likely to leave following all what norah was saying. i don't know the answer. what he would have done if he had another couple weeks. they didn't say anything. when finally the story broke said sorry i couldn't get back to you earlier but youta>> re:a. >> rose: i also have been told, we're all talking about speculation what people said if they wanted it more than someone else but he did not have at the cia the kind of support system around him that gave him a certain confidence
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technology can provide customized experiences tailored to individual consumer preferences, igniting a world of possibilities from the inside out. sponsoring tomorrow starts today. >> bnsf railway support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real and permanent good." celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and friends of the newshour. >> and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: there was no let-up today in the battle between israel and hamas, the palestinian group that rules gaza. air strikes echoed across gaza, and rockets landed near tel aviv and, for the first time, near jerusalem. the combined death toll reached 30-- 27 palestinians and three israelis. we begin with a report from john ray of independent television news in gaza. >> reporter: a sleepless night in gaza gave way to another morning of missiles.
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for that, we're joined by leslie daigle, chief technology officer for the internet society. on you to help us out with this. so how did this test today go? >> it was great. woe turned it on on these major internet sites at 8:00 eastern last night and things went smoothly. it was almost a non-event. >> ifill: was it just a switch that was flipped? >> well, as indicated in the video, this is something that's been in preparation for about a year by a number of parties and they flipped the switch but after a lot of preparations. >> ifill: was there a worry at all that people around the world would wake up today, hit their google account and be unable to get online? >> there was some concern that could happen for a small number of users, that's why we wanted to have the test today to see what happens when we go live. >> so when you go live with i.p.b. 6, what are the consequences that most ordinary internet users would notice. >> well, after today we can will reasonably confident that at least initially they won't notice anything untoward, but the opportunities that... moving thi
for that, we're joined by leslie daigle, chief technology officer for the internet society. on you to help us out with this. so how did this test today go? >> it was great. woe turned it on on these major internet sites at 8:00 eastern last night and things went smoothly. it was almost a non-event. >> ifill: was it just a switch that was flipped? >> well, as indicated in the video, this is something that's been in preparation for about a year by a number of parties and they...
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i don't know if the technology will permit that anymore. i'm sure people are going to have him writing studies of what he did in afghanistan as part of a lessons-learned, which the army is constantly working on. he does not seem like a guy who now wants to go to work for industry and make big bucks. >> rose: or appear on television all the time. >> i think he's probably had enough fun doing that. >> rose: jonathan alter, you listened today and we'll show this, where lindsey graham challenges general petraeus with vice president biden's comments. and it came right out of this book called "a promise." >> the vice president of the united states has been quoted in a book widely published in the united states which i'm sure the enemy can have access to that, come july 2011, we're going to be leaving in large numbers, you can bet on it. is he right? >> well, first, let me just state something that he said that i could share with you and others. in the national security council meeting that followsed, the meeting that i had with the president in t
i don't know if the technology will permit that anymore. i'm sure people are going to have him writing studies of what he did in afghanistan as part of a lessons-learned, which the army is constantly working on. he does not seem like a guy who now wants to go to work for industry and make big bucks. >> rose: or appear on television all the time. >> i think he's probably had enough fun doing that. >> rose: jonathan alter, you listened today and we'll show this, where lindsey...
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meanwhile, some members of congress are now pressing government regulators to ensure that high technology trading is well-monitored. mr. obama said yesterday's events are being investigated. >> the regulatory authorities are evaluating this closely, with a concern for protecting investors and preventing this from happening again. and they will make findings of their review public, along with recommendations for appropriate action. >> holman: even before the sharp drop in the market, stocks had been lower. the main cause was investors' concerns the $140 billion bailout for greece by the european union and international monetary fund might not be enough to stop the debt crisis from spreading throughout europe. today, g-7 finance ministers were teleconferencing on the crisis, while the german parliament approved its share of the rescue package. chancellor angela merkel spoke before travelling to brussels for a meeting of the e.u. >> ( translated ): this is a very important decision that makes clear that we are protecting the currency in the interests of our citizens. but it can only be effec
meanwhile, some members of congress are now pressing government regulators to ensure that high technology trading is well-monitored. mr. obama said yesterday's events are being investigated. >> the regulatory authorities are evaluating this closely, with a concern for protecting investors and preventing this from happening again. and they will make findings of their review public, along with recommendations for appropriate action. >> holman: even before the sharp drop in the market,...
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john morris is general counsel at the center for democracy and technology and an expert in first amendment law. tom miller is the attorney general of the state of iowa. he is one of the 17 attorneys general from around the country who sent the letter to craigslist. we thank you both for being with us. tom miller, i'm going to start with you. how certain are you that craigslist was being used widely and extensively for this sort of illegal activity? this wasn't just isolated incidents. >> this was not isolated incidents at all. we were quite certain . it was broadly used. a reporter at cnn put an ad on of this kind and got 15 responses in three hours. we talked to constituents. we looked at craigslist. it was clear that it was massive in terms of the opportunity for prostitution. it's not just prostitution. it's human trafficking. the terrible, terrible abuse of children. so whatever efforts that they were making to keep people off that would do these things, they were failing. maybe necessarily were failing. but it was clear, i think, to most everybody that this was a huge source of the in
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reduce the cost of health care, we reduce the readmissions to hospitals, we do a better job on using technology, less tests. we manage the more complicated medical interventions. we reduce hospital infection rates. there's a lot of ways that you can reduce health-care costs by reducing health-care costs rereduce medicare cost and medicaid cost. that's the way to do it and i think we have to enforce those types of delivery system reforms. i think democrats an republicans are prepared to do that i agree with senator corker. we need to combine revenues with real savings in spending. and that means yes, we have to have reductions in the gross rate of health-care costs. >> brown: senator corker, we are talking, are you both in the senate chamber but do you see the kind of things you're talking about specifically on the revenue side, do you really feel that there is that potential for movement in the house? because i mean do you hear that in the language of mr. boehner an others today after the election? >> i do. >> brown: you do. >> i really do. now at the end of the day, you know, ben and i serve i
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the world governing body for soccer fifa will consider using video technology including instant replay after all. the announcement today followed a storm of criticism on sunday a referee disallowed a goal by england that was clearly inside the net. hours later an or general tine a player scored a goal even though he was clearly in front of his mexican opponents making him off side. the president of fifa apologized today but also urged patience. >> when you see the evidence , the mistakes, but i have to come back. this is not the end. the end of the competition. it's not the end of football. >> sreenivasan: later soccer officials announced the two referees who made the blown calls will not be working any more games in this world cup. those are some of the day's major stories now. back to gwen. >> ifill: the senate armed services committee today endorsed the president's choice of general david petraeus to lead u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan. the nomination goes now to the full senate. today's vote, however, followed a hearing that focused more on war policy than on war personnel. pr
the world governing body for soccer fifa will consider using video technology including instant replay after all. the announcement today followed a storm of criticism on sunday a referee disallowed a goal by england that was clearly inside the net. hours later an or general tine a player scored a goal even though he was clearly in front of his mexican opponents making him off side. the president of fifa apologized today but also urged patience. >> when you see the evidence , the mistakes,...
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the government announced today it's working with university labs to deploy advanced sensor technology to study what's happening in the water. one of those centers is based in st. petersburg, florida. newshour correspondent tom bearden reports on the work of researchers there. >> reporter: the "weather bird ii" may not be the biggest research vessel afloat, but scientists from the university of south florida have been using it to answer some of the deepest mysteries resulting from the deepwater horizon oil spill. it's in port in st. petersburg this week getting ready for another voyage to figure out what's happening to the oil, the fish, the whole gulf ecosystem. when at sea, the ship deploys a variety of ocean monitoring devices and sensors. one of them looks a bit like a cruise missile, but without an engine, it's a programmable underwater glider. each one costs more than $100,000 dollars. >> we have five gliders. we have four of them that are depth rated for 200 meters and we have one that is depth rated for a thousand meters. they are equipped with a sensor suite that give us capac
the government announced today it's working with university labs to deploy advanced sensor technology to study what's happening in the water. one of those centers is based in st. petersburg, florida. newshour correspondent tom bearden reports on the work of researchers there. >> reporter: the "weather bird ii" may not be the biggest research vessel afloat, but scientists from the university of south florida have been using it to answer some of the deepest mysteries resulting...
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the downfall of david petraeus showed no sign of fading into the background today. instead, there was every indication that his admission of adultery will echo far beyond the end of his career at the c.i.a. >> a personal scandal forces c.i.a. director david petraeus to... >> i want to start out with this out of the blue thunder bolt that hit washington friday. >> brown: all weekend in washington the details kept coming along with more questions. after david petraeus' sudden resignation on friday because he had had an extra marital affair quickly revealed to involve his biographer paula broadwell. her book came out last january. appearing on c-span she recalled first meeting petraeus several years earlier. >> he came to harvard university where i
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>> well, the technology for sequencing d.n.a. has just been moving forward at a remarkable pace. people often talk about moore's law for computers as an example of an unbelievable pace of acceleration where computer power gets better by a factor of two every two year d.n.a. sequencing is getting much faster than that. we can now see within three to four years the reality your complete genome can be sequenced for less than a thousand dollars. that will become, then, a very appealing opportunity because it is your genome. it's not going to change. for the most part it is what it is so why not get that information once and for all, do it accurately, put it into your medical record and then begin to utilize that for a host of decisions about your medical care. >> brown: of course, that will also raise questions you were talking about ten years ago. about the privacy issues about what we even do with all this information once we have it. >> interpretation is going to be a moving target. if i gave you your complete genome sequence today, would you know exactly what to make of it? well,
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: command of the war in afghanistan will pass into new hands after u.s. general stanley mcchrystal was abruptly relieved of command. general mcchrystal left the white house this morning before a scheduled strategy meeting on the war in afghanistan even began. that was the first sign that he would not have his job by the end of the day. and he didn't. >> today, i accepted general stanley mcchrystal's resignation as commander of the international security assistance force in afghanistan." i did so with considerable regret, but also with certainty that it is the right thing for our mission in afghanistan, for our military, and for our country. >> ifill: mcchrystal's dismissal comes after a scathing "rolling stone" magazine profile in which the genera
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